COWGIRL FRIEL’S THE REAL DEAL
THE road from Brookside to Hollywood, from Liverpool town to Tinseltown, is a long and arduous journey for any actress — but Anna Friel has made it.
There are billboards of her all over Los Angeles this week. For, remarkably, the 46year-old has lassoed a plum role in Monarch, a new television series from Fox that has just launched in America.
It promises to do for country music what Succession did for newspaper tycoons. Anna stars alongside Susan Sarandon ( as her mother) with guest appearances from real country singers Trace Adkins (as her father) and Shania Twain (as herself) in this big-budget, multigenerational drama about ‘America’s first family of music’.
In Monarch, Anna has a flawless Tennessee accent. She sings, too.
‘Red lips, blue jeans, white pearls, I’m an American Cowgirl,’ she trills. Wait ’ til America finds out she’s from Rochdale.